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Psych Speaker Series welcomes Dr. Bertsch

Nipissing
University’s department of Psychology launches the 2015/16 Psychology Speaker
Series welcoming Dr. Katja Bertsch, department of General Psychiatry at the
University of Heidelberg, to campus for a talk, titled Aggression in Borderline Personality Disorder: Neurobiological
Correlates and Clinical Implications, Tuesday, October 6, at 3 p.m. in
R309.

Dr.
Bertsch studies the influence of hormones on the processing of social
information, emotion regulation, stress and aggression and Borderline
Personality Disorder using methods such as functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and eye tracking.

Here is an abstract:

Reactive
aggression is a key feature of patients with borderline personality disorder
(BPD). Many patients are regularly engaged in verbal, but also physical
aggressive behaviors and BPD belongs to the most frequent diagnoses among
violent convicted offenders. In my talk,
I will present a new model, which tries to capture underlying mechanisms of
reactive aggression in BPD by integrating data of psychological and
neurobiological studies and constructs of the new DSM-5 dimensional model of
personality disorders. According to this
model, increased reactive aggression might be strongly associated with the
patients’ increased sensitivity for social threats, their behavioral tendency
to approach rather than avoid social threat cues, and their reduced capability
to differentiate between their own and other peoples’ emotions. Together these may trigger intense and
aversive feelings, such as anger, anxiety, and shame, which the patients are
not able to regulate properly eventually resulting in aggressive
outbursts. Similar to self -harming
behavior, aggression might serve as a dysfunctional strategy to regulate
aversive emotions in patients with BPD. Based on this model and recent
empirical data, I will discuss open research questions as well as possible
clinical implications for the treatment.

Admission
is free and all are welcome to attend.
Refreshments will be served.​